Hooflandia Quotes

“Do you know what deus ex machina means?” “Well, I think…” began Ben. “It’s Latin for ‘too lazy to think of a proper ending,’” said Leigh.”
― Heide Goody, Hooflandia

“And who is the bad guy? Really?” said Leigh. “Satan? He barely gets a mention. He doesn’t even get a proper scene as the devil until the wilderness sections near the end. I just don’t buy him as our main antagonist.”
― Heide Goody, Hooflandia

“First of all, we have no clear hero in this narrative. Who’s it meant to be? God? Moses? If it’s Jesus, then he doesn’t turn up until the third act. No, we need some clarity on who we’re meant to be rooting for.” “I see.” “And this Jesus character. Who is he? Is he a sort of Superman, last son of a dying planet? Is he more like Neo from The Matrix? That whole messianic thing has been done to death. What are we looking for? This is a story trying to be a thousand things at once.” She turned to Ben. “Are you sure this wouldn’t be better as a trilogy?”
― Heide Goody, Hooflandia

“and everyone is so dazzled by the tech they forget that, a, people have been able to play music and see what the weather is for years without needing a voice-activated house bot”
― Heide Goody, Hooflandia

“a look of such indignant malevolence that, if its energy could be harnessed, it could be used to blow up planets.”
― Heide Goody, Hooflandia

“The house was built something like a hundred years ago, back in a time when people were shorter but ceilings were inexplicably higher.”
― Heide Goody, Hooflandia

“The peccadillo was the basic unit of minor sin. In one peccadillo there were one thousand millipeccadillos, or indeed a trillion picopeccadillos. Going up, there were a thousand peccadillos in a peccado, a major sin. A thousand major sins made a kilopeccado. A million made a megapeccado. Hell had been able to create much more refined and balanced torture since establishing a standard system of measurement.”
― Heide Goody, Hooflandia